Broadcast 'Echo's Answer'Dusty Springfield 'The Look Of Love'U2 'Stay, Faraway So Close' (yes, i know...)Massive Attack 'Protection'David Bowie 'Heroes'Beastie Boys 'Eugene's Lament'Beastie Boys 'Something's Got To Give'DJ Shadow 'Changeling'Future Sound Of London 'Papua New Guinea'Way Out West 'Domination'Boards Of Canada 'Amo Bishop Roden'Zero 7 'This World'Seefeel 'Spangle'Cocteau Twins 'Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel mix)'Goldfrapp 'Pilots'Plone 'On My Bus'Doves 'Firesuite'Doves 'Zither'808 State ft James Doughty 'Bond'Primal Scream 'Keep Your Dreams'Portishead 'Roads'Vangelis 'Love Theme from Blade Runner' (damn saxophone...)
many of these are instrumental cos i respond more to music rather than words (leaving more to my imagination regarding what its about) but there you go. also pretty much everything in my list is very subtle, slow and ambient whereas of course heavy or uptempo stuff can have the same effect but i suppose i was thinking more about records that almost (or actually do) bring you to tears cos they're so melancholic in tone
what are your genuine 'tear triggering tracks' that do it every time...i expect to see things by the likes of Spiritualised, The Ronettes and the Beach Boys further down cos i didnt really consider such acts myself - or you could just refer me to an older thread if there is one
cheers
― blueski, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
For tears, it's always pop music -- lots of stuff by Take That, I'm afraid. *(hides behind James)*
― J0hn Darn1elle, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 August 2002 18:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
That song never really triggered much of an emotional response for me before, but GODDAMN, at that moment, I just closed my eyes and silently went "Oh, Christ. Oh God, that's pretty."
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― blueski, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt C., Friday, 30 August 2002 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1lle, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt C., Friday, 30 August 2002 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justin, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 30 August 2002 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 30 August 2002 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Prude, Friday, 30 August 2002 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shaky Mo Collier, Friday, 30 August 2002 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 30 August 2002 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Martin your Jimmy Cliff spotting is ON
― J0hn Darn1elle, Friday, 30 August 2002 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Jimmy Cliff: God yes. Waiting for a Superman: Heavens, that too. Neil Young: oooo I could stay here forever.
― G Bear, Friday, 30 August 2002 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Some of the vocals-only versions on the Pet Sounds box set are more emotionally pungent than the full versions on the original album. Try "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times," because it absolutely does have the effect you're speaking of. I once put it on a mix tape for a prospective boyfriend and it was a major factor in the development of our relationship. :-)
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Clarke B. (emily), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ivan Rebroff, "Die Legende von den 12 Räubern"Claudio Monteverdi, "Ave Maria Stella" from Vespro della beata VergineColeman Hawkins' entrance on "Epistrophy" by Thelonious Monk, from Monk's MusicLow, "Coattails" and "Soon" in live performance"Day By Day" from Godspell (!!!)"The Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie"Our Prayer" by the Beach Boys"Little Things" by Ida"A Saucerful of Secrets" from Live at Pompeii, "Outside the Wall" (film version) and "The Final Cut" by Pink FloydWayne Shorter's entrance on "Circle" on Miles SmilesThe entrance of the 2nd guitar after the solo on Bedhead's "A Parade"Entrance of the synth pad a couple minutes into Spool's "Ebo"
It's funny, I have a similar feeling about "God Only Knows". The thought of the song destroys me, but listening to it has never much affected me. I think there's a different rendition hidden in there somewhere, and that's the one that I imagine. Maybe it exists somewhere on tape; it definitely wouldn't be the first time an alternate mix/take of a Beach Boys song was better than the original -- the 5-minute half-instrumental mix of "'Til I Die" and the Smile version of "Surf's Up" both surpass the versions on the Surf's Up album...
― Phil (phil), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Phil (phil), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Charles Mingus- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (as a cumulative effect of the album)
Tammy Wynette- Walk Through This World
Big Star- Holocaust
Billie Holiday- Not sure of the title (perhaps "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" or "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone") but there is a performance towards the end of her career/life where her voice is about to give out and the lyrics suggest that she is washed up and going to die soon in this really affecting ironic bitter-sweet way. Its really devastating, especially if you listen to some of her stuff from the 30s where her voice is in top form to compare.
There are more...these are some of the most consistent though.
― Ryan McKay, Saturday, 31 August 2002 02:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
hells yes!
Big Star's "Morpha Too""Fade Into You" and "Linger" The vocal harmonies on the Only Ones' "Out there in the night"pavement "shoot the singer" (in the morning light/you hold that ashtray tight)the last 2 cymbals on the cure's "homesick" would do me in, wan that i was a teenagerarab strap "soaps" the last breath that ends the last song on that dog's totally crushed out album"it's a new age!" in the velvets' "new age"the opening notes/chords to "100,000 fireflies" and "all the umbrellas in london"
― Aaron A., Saturday, 31 August 2002 02:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 31 August 2002 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Zac, The Black Power Ranger (vicc13), Saturday, 31 August 2002 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kinski, Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (when the final refrain hits, with that high-pithched mewling noise in the background)
Orbital - Chime (the moment when the bass starts, just tentatively, rather than booming in)
REM - Nightswimming (the oboe solo just lifts the whole song)
At The Drive-In - Cosmonaut (the bit when this amazing riff comes in, two thirds of the way through, and the singer just... LOSES it)
Spiritualized - The Straight and the Narrow (the way the violins hold on for just one beat longer than you expect them to)
Shack - Cornish Town (the nah-nah-nah harmonies that kick in right before the end)
Squarepusher - Iambic 5 Poetry (starts off slowly, but when the melody appears half way through you don't ever want it to end)
Underworld - Two Months Off (glorious synths fade in slowly, Karl singing "you bring light in" repeatedly... amazing)
The Beta Band - Quiet (bass riff that appears out of nowhere near the end, while the drums bang over the top of it)mu-ziq - Slice (the way this little melody keeps popping up apparently randomly)
Lambchop - Bugs (like listening to a spring unravelling, especially the moment when Kurt sings "and you take her hand, and you gesture toward the bay")
Bjork - Joga (the opening violin chords)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
and yeh, i think everyone means certain parts of the track send shivers...you wouldnt get them all the way through or from jut the opening notes/bars in most cases
― blueski, Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt C., Saturday, 31 August 2002 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
Absolutely! Saw a performance of that on TV and it sent shivers down the spine. The next day I borrowed a copy of the 'Substance' compilation off the rec library.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 31 August 2002 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
one of his finest moments really. I feel the same abt this track.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 31 August 2002 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 31 August 2002 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Unt others (for all sorts of reasons) (and, please, let the BRs be there):Stina Nordenstam - "This Time, John"Jenny Toomey - "Needmore, PA"This Heat - "Paper Hats"Christina Aguilera - "What a Girl Wants"Philistines Jr. - "The Truth About Scientists"Neko Case - "Runnin' Out of Fools"Talk Talk - "Ascension Day" / "After the Flood"
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 31 August 2002 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Orange, Saturday, 31 August 2002 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ooh, Matt, good save.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 31 August 2002 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sadness: Grandaddy, "Miner At the Dial-A-View/So You'll Aim Towards the Sky" or Beck, "Nobody's Fault But My Own"Giddiness: any random 1975-1979 Ramones song played without warningContented bliss: Blackalicious, "Make You Feel That Way" or Air's "La Femme D'Argent"Swagger: Ol' Dirty Bastard, "Sussudio" or Ghostface Killah's "Nutmeg"Ass-kickin' Time: Dead Boys, "Sonic Reducer" or Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic"Lust (the good part): The Stooges, "Loose" or Curtis Mayfield's "Give Me Your Love"Lust (the frustrating part): Radio Birdman, "Love Kills" or the Buzzcocks' "Why Can't I Touch It?"That intangible all-encompassing sensation of "fuck yeah": Vitalic, "La Rock" or DJ Shadow's "The Number Song"
And, in his own category, anything and everything by James Brown.
― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 31 August 2002 15:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Nate: You're absolutely correct about James Brown. Maybe some of that other stuff too, but unimpeachable on JB.
― Matt C., Saturday, 31 August 2002 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
i don't get this much from music anymore, the last songs i remember being really emotional about were "laugh" by low and "into dust" by mazzy star, and these are associated with a death for me.
― ron (ron), Saturday, 31 August 2002 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Saturday, 31 August 2002 16:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
two have done it since I had a baby daughter. both reduce me completely to tears, and regularly, too:zion - lauryn hillthere she goes - the las
old chestnut's arent they? but its an old chestnut attracting kind of quesyions, I guess.
PSGod Only KNows is like watching Bjorn Bjorg or Tiger Woods play. unimpeachable, best in the world, technically perfect, oddly unmoving.
― jon, Saturday, 31 August 2002 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Magnificat" and "Litany" give me shivers.
Also on the classical shiver-giving tip: anything by Penderecki.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 31 August 2002 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
I tend to agree with this (although I'd argue that Pet Sounds has some very moving moments), but the harmony/voice leading in the chorus and coda, and the way the notes take shape as they ascend in little increments, then hit plateaus, then soar, then fall, is still pretty fuckin' cool.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 31 August 2002 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
And, uh, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 (especially "The Suicide"). Although it's so chilling it's practically comical.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 31 August 2002 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 31 August 2002 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
but i almost can't listen to Scott Walker's "The Electrician"
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 1 September 2002 05:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 1 September 2002 05:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
Others:
Bowie - "Absolute Beginners."Eminem - "Hallie's Song." Not as much now, because I overlistened to it, foolish me.Concrete Blonde - "Tomorrow Wendy."Tori Amos - "Winter." (And I'm not a Tori fan, really, apart from Little Earthquakes and that EP)Elvis Presley - "In the Ghetto.""Suicide is Painless," specifically as sung in the movie.Leather Strip's mix of the Cure's "Lullaby." Different kind of shivers.INXS - "The Stairs."The Kinks - "Celluloid Heroes."The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony."Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees."Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey."
― Bill Kte'pi (ktepi), Sunday, 1 September 2002 06:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Kitchens of Distinction - "Gone World Gone"
Low - "Laser Beam"
and ..
Inner Life - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (the 10 minute remix)
― JC (JC A.), Sunday, 1 September 2002 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ryan McKay, Sunday, 1 September 2002 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm afraid I'm going to have bad dreams knowing that "Nightswimming" sends shivers down someone's spine.
― Burr, Sunday, 1 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Underclocked, Monday, 2 September 2002 03:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cybele, Monday, 2 September 2002 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Id have to second that "boom" in Soma.Fantastic.
Tonights the Night- Neil Young
Sinead O Conner does the trick a few times on "I do not want what I havent got"
Dire Straits(yes!)play the single most chilling song Ive heard- a live version of "Where do you think youre going". We he moans "you better go with me girl" you know hes not fooling around.Scary shit.
Nirvana- the end of that Leadbelly tune where he lets out a goulish sigh or breath on Unplugged
Otis Redding "Dock of the Bay" of course.
― Kiwi, Monday, 2 September 2002 05:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Monday, 2 September 2002 06:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
probably lots more. For ages I couldn't think of any answer to this thread but then Julie C came on my playlist.
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 September 2002 06:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 2 September 2002 07:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 September 2002 08:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
But, maybe more than this, pretty much all of the Delgados' new album. It's like their previous stuff, but it's all realised so much better than anything they've done before, probably even Peloton - this could just be euphoria induced by putting 'The Light Before We Land' on again a minute ago, but... no, it isn't. It has a children's choir on a bit of it, and even that doesn't sound shite. It may just be me being indie, and the probability that no-one else will like it, and that no, it might not be breaking any new ground, and yeah, maybe it does sound fucking 'prog', as some will probably say, and perhaps there's fucking 'Dave Fridmann wank' in there somewhere... I don't have the words for this one. It comes out October 14th. And you may well hate it. It's worth the risk though, in my eyes anyway. Argh. Plugging. Off Topic. Fuck-uck-uck....
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 2 September 2002 10:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 2 September 2002 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
Seconding the huge depth charge thingy in 'Chasing a Bee' and also the Jimmy Cliff - ESPECIALLY when actually watching him wander through Kingston in the film.
Also, the 'i must confess that my lonliness...' bit in the middle of 'Hit me baby one more time' where the tune kind of turns inside out
the ridiculously intense 'BABY! BABY! BABY!' in 'I want you back'
in Jonathon Richman's 'Hospital', 'last time i walked down your street, there probably were, uh, tears in my eyes'
the building paranoid mania in the ojays' 'backstabbers' - " i keep getting visits from all my friends.........they come to my house again and again and again and again........WELL ARE THEY HERE TO SEE MY WOMAN? I DON'T EVEN BE HOME BUT THEY JUST KEEP COMING"
the bit i 'you've lost that loving feeling' where they go absolutely mental imploring over each other to their baby
"all i want is peace and love on this planet" massive barrage of PE noise come to a dead halt, Chuck D sounding more righteous than even he's managed before "ain't that how god planned it" massive barrage begins again
the accapella breakdown bit in the first song on GZA's 'liquid swords' where it all comes close to falling apart and then gathers itself back together as the beat comes in.
"hey pauly pauly paul let's have a ball" from 'gigantic'
"well i dropped into a church, along the way. I GOT DOWN ON MY KNEES....." from California Dreamin'. And whenever this is played in 'Chunking Express' (which is often), well it's just all too much....
― adam b (adam b), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Towards The Stars
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
and responding to various comments earlier in the thread, I got 100 Days Off by Underworld last week and it's been glued inside my CD player ever since - it's far more chilled than Beaucoup Fish but definitely worth buying.
― Ben Graham, Monday, 2 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
My Bloody Valentine: "Swallow" & "No More Sorry"(Just 2 out of many!)
Sonic youth: "The Sprawl" & "JC"
Trail of Dead: "Another Morning Stoner" & "Claire De Lune"
Prince: "If I was your Girlfriend"
At The Drive-In: "Arcarsenal"
A Perfect Circle: "The Hollow"
Marvin Gaye: "Flyin' High"
Basement Jaxx: "Being With You" & "All I Know"
Tool: "Lateralus" & Pushit (Any version, but I'm partial to the one on Salival)
Tricky: "Devil's Helper" & "Tonite is a Special Nite"
Massive Attack: "Unfinished Sympathy" & "Protection"
Joy Division: "The Eternal"
― Brenya, Monday, 2 September 2002 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 2 September 2002 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 September 2002 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daine, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 04:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Townes van Zandt - "If I had no place to fall" for the when his voice first comes in with the title line and the ache forces the shiver down
Chopin - Nocturnes - the really painful one towards the end of the first side of the LP - all the way through he's been almost delivering on the melody but never quite and then finally lets it out but in a really uncomfortable way that's still beautiful. Like having your genitals whipped at the point of orgasm or something.
EPMD - "Get off the bandwagon" - when the music stops halfway through and Erick just says "Sucker" in a really pitying way. Ooooh.
Q-Tex - "the power of love" - if you remember the name of the song you probably know why...
― Jacob, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 10:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
Air's "La Femme D'Argent" doesn't move me emotionally, but it has an incredibly calming physical effect, it must be the equivalent of a recording of my brainwaves (slow, boring, unoriginal...).
― Mike (mratford), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― blueski, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mike (mratford), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
Nightime-Big Star ("I hate it here I hate it here, get me out of here, I hate it here")
Beauty Queen (the start, mainly..."Valerie please, believe, it never could work out")
Satellite of Love-Lou Reed (the harmonies at the end are just so beautiful)
Why Does Nobody Want You-Kenickie
Together Again-Janet Jackson
You CanÕt Put Your Arms Around a Memory-Johnny Thunders (that melancholy, echo-y solo)
What's Your Name-the Ramones
I'm A Human Being - New York Dolls ( "a riff-raff human being!")
DonÕt Worry Baby-Beach Boys
The Frogs-Weird on the Avenue
Always Crashing in the Same Car-David Bowie
Gene Pitney-Town Without Pity (the way he drags out the "bad" in "people talk about how bad we are")
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The Killing Moon" by ye olde Bunnymen used to conjure this same effect (and still can, when the mood and alcohol content is right), but it may get a bit too much airplay to still pack the spine-tingle potency. I guess it's also a bit of a cliche, too.
The theme from "Picnic at Hanging Rock" by ::cough:: ::cough::: er...pan-flute maestro, Zamfir...is quite chilling as well.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ah, what the hell, so is "Marian" by the Sisters of Mercy off FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS, particularly when Andrew starts exhorting in perfrect German at the tail-end of it.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
And "Ambition".
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kiwi, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― angelo (angelo), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 04:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
i'd suggest isan's remix of seefeel's 'When Face Was Face' from the warp 10+3 compilation. couple of other tracks on their with a similar feel too. which reminds me of:
the surgeon remix of 'mogwai fear satan' (on 'kicking a dead pig')
stereolab 'lo boob oscilator'
insides 'clear skin' (formerly earwig, 38 minute ambient piece on 4ad offshoot guernica)
and in a different vein:several melt banana tracks, not sure of names, only heard them on peel.
andy
― koogs, Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― koogs, Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
now there's a film that GENUINELY sends shivers down your spine.
― michael w., Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
That'll do for now!
― john barlow, Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 5 September 2002 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
portishead- roads (live)radiohead- fake plastic trees and true love waitsjames- out to get youmission of burma- thats when i reach for my revolverprince- 7john martyn- couldnt love you morebeck- halo of goldwilco- via chicago...and you will know us by the trail of dead- how near, how fardelta dart- still no sparksflaming lips- feeling yourself disintegrate and waitin for a supermangrandaddy- dial a view/aim towards the skyaimee mann- wise upim sure that there are more.
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 5 September 2002 22:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
beta band - "B+A": the part where the loud crashing drums crash in. then again when the bass kicks in.
bjork - "pagan poetry": 'he makes me want to hurt myself'
bjork - "joga": 'emotional landscape'
strokes - "the modern age": 'don't want you here right now LET ME GO!! WHOOOOOOO!!!!!'
basement jaxx - "romeo"
verve - "weeping willow": the part where he goes 'beside me' over and over
and ditto ditto DITTO to "soma" and "alberto balsalm"
― justin, Friday, 6 September 2002 03:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Friday, 6 September 2002 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
and that's just off the top of my head...gimme a bit more time and i could go on for weeks, frankly. but i won't. you'll be happy to hear...
― Charlie, Friday, 6 September 2002 04:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 6 September 2002 04:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael w., Friday, 6 September 2002 06:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 6 September 2002 12:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 16 November 2002 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
And, I have to confess that every time I hear Eminem's "cleaning out my closet" on the radio (ok, not thaaat many times), it gets me. As much of a jerk as he may be, he gets so damn personal. it creeps me.
Neil Young - old man (cheesy maybe, but a lot of Harvest and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere really get to me).
I'm amazed I haven't seen anyone mention the cure yet. I'm sure there must be something... or some leonard cohen.
I don't know this just makes me think about my angsty high school years. there were plenty of shivering spine soundtracks then.
and, I'm sure I'm ducking, but phil collin's "in the air tonight" gets me...I love the sounds and the echo on his voice and there's the story. I wonder how many folks had for their prom song this ditty 'bout murder and loss.
― nick ring, Saturday, 16 November 2002 05:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
man.. Doc Boggs was yong at the time, but it sounded like he was already dead...you could hear his skin scraping against his bones.
― nick ring (nick ring), Saturday, 16 November 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 November 2002 19:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack, Sunday, 17 November 2002 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 17 November 2002 01:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ejad, Sunday, 17 November 2002 05:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 17 November 2002 05:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious, Monday, 18 November 2002 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 18 November 2002 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Don't really know why, but that song makes me wanna cry...
― Bruno Batista, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 02:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alan Connor (alanconnor), Monday, 9 December 2002 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Greyhound, "Black and White"(a marvellous reggae gem in its own right, not an MJ cover)
Milton Nascimento, "Panis Angelicus"(this actually IS a 'cover', of a Cesar Franck song)
Art Ensemble of Chicago, "Charlie M"
Philip Glass' "The Unutterable"
Zep's "Night Flight"(amongst other enticements, the chorus is pure swing-metal)&Sabbath's "Supernaut"(da monstariff returns after the cod-Caribbean sunset, twice the supanova it was to begin with, etcetcetc)
Beatles, "Because" -- the vox only version
on a Pentangle live record, the short and solemn instrumental theme of John Dowland's ..."The Earl of Salisbury"?? (never quite sure of its title)
and in fact several more whose butterfly-y-shivery buzz hasn't much diminished after innumerable spins:Nina Simone's "Lilac Wine", Stone Roses's "Fool's Gold", REM's "Perfect Circle", M.Nascimento's & Chico Buaque's "Calice", Wyatt's "Free Will & Testament"
― t\'\'t (t''t), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 02:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nik (Nik), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 17 March 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
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"You've got to hold and giveBut do it at the right timeYou can be slow or fastBut you must get to the lineThey'll always hit you and hurt youDefend and attackTheres only one way to beat themGet round the backCatch me if you canCos' I'm the England manAnd what you're looking atIs the master planWe ain't no hooligansThis ain't a football songThree lions on my chestI know we can't go wrong"
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 17 March 2003 04:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 17 March 2003 05:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
tim rogers and the twinset "you've been so good to me so far" (when the accordion comes in)
jeremy enigk "shade and the black hat" (when he starts yelping, "won't you stay tonight!" and the orchestra comes in full blast)
― jesse, Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:54 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery, Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:00 (twenty years ago) link
recently Elbow - switching off
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:42 (twenty years ago) link
― joni, Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
Mine are:
The Cheeky Girls - Touch my BumHarry - ImaginationMr Blobby - Blobby SongMeatloaf - Anything for LoveBloodhound Gang - The Ballad of Chasey LainShamen - Ebneezer Good
― Spoonered (Spoonered), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:48 (twenty years ago) link
Yes - On the Silent Wings of FreedomLed Zeppelin - When the Levee BreaksBlur - Oily Water, Slow Down (the instrumental outro), Wear Me Down, For Tomorrow, etcManic Street Preachers - La Tristessa DureraSmashing Pumpkins - Thru the Eyes of Ruby, Starla, Rhinoceros, etc
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:03 (twenty years ago) link
Many Cure tracks, but especially "Prayers For Rain", "The Same Deep Water As You", "Lament", "New Day", "This Twilight Garden", "Like Cockatoos", "Another Day", "Wailing Wall", "Shake Dog Shake", "Fear Of Ghosts", "All Cats Are Grey" and "Siamese Twins"
Many Prince tracks, but especially "Adore", "Mountains", "Sometimes It Snows In April", "Tambourine", "Housequake", "Annie Christian", "Another Lonely Christmas", "Shy", "The Human Body", "Kiss", "Sexy MF", "Alphabet Street" and "All The Critics Love U In New York".
The entire second half of _Ritual de lo Habitual_.
Every Orbital album except for the green album.
Every Prodigy track I've heard EXCEPT for "Serial Thrilla", "Funky Shit" and "Ruff In The Jungle Bizniz"
Every Lamb track I've heard.
"David" and "Believe" by Gus Gus.
"Get Busy" and "Like Glue" by Sean Paul.
"Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" by Busta Rhymes.
"Scenario", "Butter" and "Excursions" by A Tribe Called Quest.
The second movement of the Brahms Requiem.
The mezzo solos in the Verdi Requiem.
The Lacrymosa from the Mozart Requiem.
Frank Martin's "Mass for Double Chorus".
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
― sean g, Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
― jason m. (jason m), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link
To name but a few...
Jeff Buckley - 'Last Goodbye': "Kiss me out of desire baby/ Not consolation"
Kate Bush - 'Hounds of Love', 'Cloudbusting'..."I still dream...."
Abba - 'Dancing Queen' Obvious choice but then you're not really human if you don't include this.
Slint - 'Good Morning Captain' Towards the end when the blank sheets of noise mutate into something more muscular
Spiderbait - 'Horschack Army'... More thrilling noise. See also...
Swans - 'Love Will Save You', 'Power and Sacrifice'
Lamb - 'Gorecki' When the beats come in....
*It's sort of cheating to name dance music, cos they've been lab-produced precisely to induce these effects. But still, while we're about it, here are some tracks that are all about bringing the beat back...
Chemical Brothers - 'Sunshine Underground'Underworld - 'Cowgirl'Leftfield - 'Song Of Life' Christ.....
and sundry others that aren't leaping to mind right now*
Coldplay - 'Daylight' (The chorus crashing in), 'Amsterdam'
Radiohead - er, almost everything. For know, 'A Reminder ("The night that we kissed and I really meant it")
Beethoven - 9th Symphony. Crashingly obvious. Sue me
Lauryn Hill - 'Ex-Factor' "Why won't you live for me?"
Bjork - 'Unison'
Doves - 'Pounding' Towards the end, the Marr guitar.
Smiths. Too many. How about 'Well I Wonder'? "Gasping, dying, but somehow still alive"
Air - 'La Femme D'Argent'. The floating synth melodies towards the end.
Aimee Mann - 'Wise up' Played by friend on return from club, high as. Damn near thought my head would come off.
er... N-Sync - 'Girlfriend' The Neps are frikkin brilliant at bridges. cf Justin Timberlake - 'Rock Your Body'
The first time I heart the beats on 'Smack Your Bitch Up'
And that's more than enough for now....
― lee ward (lee ward), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:45 (twenty years ago) link
Donnie Darko is the best movie I've seen in years. And that song rules!
― Cacaman Flores (Siñor N.K. Loveless), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
Depeche Mode "Lie to Me," Cat Power "Cross bones style," Helium "Ghost Car," PJ Harvey "Sweeter than anything," Palace "tonight's decision (and hereafter)", Mary J Blige "No more drama," Radiohead "Black Star" and "Idiotheque."
― daria g (daria g), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:49 (twenty years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 25 July 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 July 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 10 August 2003 05:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 10 August 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link
The Man with the Child in His Eyes - those descending piano chords before the chorus. Actually, the whole song is one long shiver.
Coolio's I'll See You When You Get There makes me teary-eyed for reasons which I don't understand.
John Coltrane's live version of Naima for poignancy, and My Favourite Things for the other kind of spine-tingle.
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Sunday, 10 August 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 10 August 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
In any event, I'm wrong and nickdastoor made me question and snopes told me for sure. So I learn.
In any event it's still a swell songs that sends shivers down my spine... murder or not.
― nick ring (nick ring), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― joni, Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Friday, 15 August 2003 03:54 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 04:46 (twenty years ago) link
― duane, Friday, 15 August 2003 05:52 (twenty years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 19 November 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Will (will), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Pete Heller - "Big Love"
The Sugarcubes - "Birthday"
Ben Harper - "Sexual Healing (live)"
Supercar - "Recreation"
New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle"/ "Here to Stay"/ "Temptation"
Depeche Mode - "Somebody" (especially live version from "101")/"Enjoy the Silence"
Jackson 5 - "I'll be There"
Inner City - "Good Life"
The Cure - "High"/"A forest"/"Lullaby"
The Stone Roses - "I wanna be adored"
Pavement - "Grounded"/"Here"/"In the mouth a desert"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Set the Ray to Jerry"
Sonic Youth - "Mote"/"JC" The Smiths - "There is a light that never goes out"/Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?"
Quicksand - "Fazer"
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 19 November 2004 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seuss, Friday, 19 November 2004 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Suess, Friday, 19 November 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― mucho, Friday, 19 November 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― d. mitha (ykeo), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Al Green, "I Think It's for the Feeling."
Big Star, "You Can't Have Me."
Elis Regina, "Zazueira" (her greatest recording)
João Gilberto, "Sampa"
Bobby Womack, "Daylight"
Byrds, "Dolphin's Smile"
U2, "Even Better than the Real Thing"
Scritti, "Wood Beez"
Prefab Sprout, "I Remember That"
Everly Bros., "So Lonely"
Gram Parsons, "$1000 Wedding"
Gary Stewart, "Single Again"
South Shore Commission, "Free Man"
Sly and the Family Stone, "If You Want Me to Stay"
Spring Heel Jack, "Midwest"
Sinatra, "One for My Baby" (live version with Bill Miller, piano)
Soul Man Burke, "Someone Is Watching" (from "King Solomon")
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
recently:El-P "Oxycontin"The Silures "21 Ghosts" (thanks to Matt Perpetua)
― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Dixon, Friday, 19 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Saturday, 20 November 2004 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
"But you'd better love (LOVE), find some love, you'd better love me, Jesus Christ"
― jsk baby (jsk baby), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 2 January 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Rufus Wainwright's Oh What a World and In My Arms. Michael Jackson - Billie JeanFugazi - Do You Like Me?, or Full DisclosureMission of Burma - MicaUnderworld - Dirty EpicNeutral Milk Hotel - Oh ComelySufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise, or Casimir Pulaski DayAretha Franklin - Chain of FoolsFour Tet - UnspokenDJ Shadow - Building Steam With a Grain of SaltTori Amos - Professional Widow (ugh, this song came on the iPod yesterday and I got incredibly fucking distracted while I was driving. This is probably her greatest moment. Fie to those who doubt Boys for Pele's brilliance! Nothing else she ever did or has done since matches it, but what a definitive statement from a weird artist).
― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I mentioned it in another thread just the other day, but Built to Spill's "Velvet Waltz", particularly the "and you better not be angry, and you better not be sad!" part.
Kraftwerk's "Neon Lights", especially the 1/3 of it.
Microphones - "Map"
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 16 April 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 16 April 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link
A lot of Neutral Milk Hotel.
I guess they're my "artists that consistently send shivers down your spine)
― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 17 April 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, the live/acoustic recording of Bjork's 'The Anchor Song' with the Brodsky Quartet gobsmacks me every time--just thinking about it stands my arm hair on end. It was a song I'd completely forgotten from 'Debut'--she wasn't even able to hit the single note that gives me the shivers on the original recording.
― I.M. (I.M.), Monday, 17 April 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Emily B (emily.burnha...), April 15th, 2006.
I may hang out in the wrong circles, but this is the first time I've seen anyone share my opinion on the awesomeness of this song.
― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Phoenix "If I Ever Feel Better (Todd Edwards remix)"- never listen to it if you're going through a break up.
The Avalanches "Live at Domino's"- it's like they condensed all the joy and sadness from the album into one track. And when strings somewhere in the middle of the song start to change pitch... Pure genius, with a soul of a child.
Pet Shop Boys "It Must Be Obvious"- unexplainable sadness kicking in at 0:04 and then despair at 0:20.Oh, and that line, "It should be poetry, not prose". Horror of everyday commonness in just 6 words.
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kali (Kali), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jarrod Doern, Friday, 5 May 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Kate Bush -- Pull Out The Pin
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
you like kate bush??
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
hush you
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
When the guitar comes in for the noodly bit in Eno's "Golden Hours." When everything but the guitar drops out before the last verse of "Teenage Riot."
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
The little guitar riff in Fugazi's "Repeater" after the "1-2-3... REPEATER!" literally kicks off an adrenaline rush in me, 18 years running...
― Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"I LOVE LIFE, I LOVE LIFE"
― cutty, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I need to get high to get shivers down my spine.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the first few times I heard Robert Wyatt's Cuckooland I had shivers. The atmosphere was so thick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PJpFhkEds Just A Bit
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
A Jobriath thread got revived last week, which reminded me of the line in "Street Corner Love" that goes "love me like we never met". Maybe because it's a bit of honesty from someone who otherwise dressed like a Christmas tree bauble.
― snoball, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
those martial drum breaks that come right after
"cameras ready prepare to flash"
― henry s, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard twin peaks theme track last night and this happened I don't even like the song that much!
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
What a lovely thread.
Some great songs listed above and I'm gonna nick some and more. Fwiw a random few:-
Swallow - My Vloody Balentine Spirit Ditch - Sparklehorse Jumbo- Underworld History Lesson - Minutemen Sain- Grifters Lorelei- Cocteau Twins What Does your Soul Look Like _ DJ Shadow Suspension Bridge Over Iguazu Falls- Tortoise Don't Stop Now -Guided By Voices Bat's Mouth - Bat For Lashes What's Going Ahn - Big Star Holes- Mercury Rev Whatever or Eight Miles High - Hooooosker du Still Be around _ Uncle Tupelo Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess- Half Man Half Biscuit
and Nine million more - off the top of my head. Wednesday Night mood. And totally showing my age.
― Fer Ark, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Wu-Tang Clan "Protect Ya Neck" (It also makes me pump my fist) Minutemen "Little Man With a Gun in His Hand" The Mountain Goats "Snow Owl"/"Family Happiness" (two distinct flavors of intense desperation) Talking Heads "Crosseyed and Painless" Al Green "La La For You" Funkadelic "Can You Get To That" (yes, I certainly can) Issac Hayes "Walk On By" They Might Be Giants "She's An Angel" (mainly just the pre-chorus w/ the slide guitar) Sambomaster "Futari Bochi No Sekai" Can "Oh Yeah" (I intend to play this at the apocalypse)
― telepathy_rock!, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Electric Wizard "Barbarian" ("THE WIZAARRD"--RIFF) Boredoms "Synthesizer Guide Book On Fire" (whoa) The theme music from Cowboy Bebop David Bowie "Five Years" (especially the line about the girl in the ice cream parlor not knowing that she's in this song) The part of "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celest" by Bela Bartok that Kubrick used in The Shining (eerie as all hell) John Fahey "Desperate Man Blues"/"On The Sunny Side of the Ocean"
Man I could keep doing this forever
― telepathy_rock!, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ESG "UFO" Stereolab "Jenny Ondioline" Number Girl "Omoide In My Head" CCR "Born On The Bayou" REM "Radio Free Europe" Radiohead "Everything In It's Right Place" The intro to Metroid 2
it's a wonder my spine isn't perpetually shivering
― telepathy_rock!, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
fake plastic trees does it for me. For the song itself and for the memories attached to it.
― Moka, Thursday, 21 August 2008 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Big Star - Thirteenth My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes Elvis - Blue moon Peggy Lee- Is that all there is Rick Nelson - Lonesome town Robert Wyatt- Sea song Scott Walker - Farmer in the city Low - If you were born today
too many to mention
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:13 (fifteen years ago) link
War, "There Must Be a Reason"
― The Reverend, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
This song triggers some really hard realizations for me, In a lot of ways I see myself as that "Lookin' Boy".
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:33 (fifteen years ago) link
someone else needs to pick up that meme, to take a load off your back, if nothing else
― The Reverend, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:42 (fifteen years ago) link
How about Ooberman's "Shorley Wall", particularly the end poem?
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
First thing that comes to mind is Billy Bragg's "St. Swithin's Day"
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Doin' it alone lookin' boy
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
― Discordian, Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Great topic. I'm sure I am only echoing a lot of these choices, but:
The Beach Boys -- God Only Knows Iron & Wine -- Bird Stealing Bread The Clientele -- Losing Haringey The Clientele -- Dreams Of Leaving Chris Bell -- You And Your Sister Dennis Wilson -- Carry Me Home Dennis Wilson -- It's Not Too Late Jimmy Cliff -- Many Rivers To Cross Grant Hart -- You Don't Have To Tell Me Now Bruce Springsteen -- One Step Up Low -- Silver Rider Miles Davis -- In A Silent Way Neil Young -- See The Sky About To Rain Wilco -- Jesus, etc. William Basinski -- The Disintegration Loop 1.1
. . . among others.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 August 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Off the top of my head: Zombies - Leave Me Be Badfinger - Baby Blue Lefty Frizzell - Mom and Dad's Waltz George Jones - Color of the Blues Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain (pretty much the entire album) Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore Joe Tex - Skip a Rope
― asthmatic american, Thursday, 21 August 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
It's always higher frequency sounds that do this to me, so it's usually guitar solos or backing strings. Typically a chord change involved too. And the effect is incredible if I haven't heard the track for a good while. I'd love to know the neuroscience behind it! If somebody could map the parts of my brain that are affected mid-shiver and then artificially/electronically recreate the stimulation, I'd probably collapse, comatose with pleasure.
Isaac Hayes - Walk on By Think it's the first string swell with chord change.
Pearls Before Swine - Ballad to an Amber Lady
Budgie - Hot as a Docker's Arm Pit (No shit!!) The long run of notes toward the end of the main solo.
Blue Oyster Cult - Harvester of Eyes Again, the guitar solo
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"An Ending (Ascent)" by Brian Eno. Every. Fucking. Time. I am reduced to an amoeba-like pile of amorphous goo.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 27 April 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
anything by O.A.R., bro
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 27 April 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
the Eno one that does it for me is "Everything Merges with the Night", I feel funny just thinking about it
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
The live version of 'Silver Springs', when it transitions into the 'Time has cast a spell on you...' section.
The moment in the Scott Walker track on Climate Of Hunter when he sings 'And the ceiling is rising and falling' and the swarm of Evan Parker soprano saxes comes in.
The final section of George Crumb's Music For A Summer Evening
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
fuller list, off the top of my brain:
Parliment - The Silent Boatman (bagpipes)Autechre - Silverside (the ending, where you finally get to hear the entire melody)Soul Coughing - Lazybones (the entire thing is so damn heavy)Devo - Race of Doom (don't know why. something about the way the synths intersect with the rhythm gets me)ELP - From the Beginning (everything about it is gorgeous, but especially Emerson's solo in the end)Faust - No Harm (the scream at the end)Underworld - Most 'Ospitable (the whole thing)Underworld - Jumbo ("Telephone breath between us/there are no borders between us/Only these wires")Happy Mondays - Dennis and Lois ("Honey, how's your breathing/If it stops for good we'll believe it")Kraftwerk - Neon Lights (the onslaught of shimmering major chords that make up the second half)Yellow Magic Orchestra - Gradated Gray (great song with an inexplicably creepy atmosphere)The Books - Getting the Job Done (when the vocals come in)Can - Oh Yeah (when the rhythm section really kicks in, 2 minutes in)Gary Numan - Complex (mostly the intro, but really everything)Neu! - Isi (c'mon, nobody can disagree with this)Michael Jackson - Stranger in Moscow (already mentioned, but holy cow, this is a monster)Boredoms - 7 (from VCN - when the guitar chords finally come in, braaang brooong)Harry Nilsson - Morning Glory Story (gosh the vocals are pretty on this one)Todd Rundgren - When the Shit Hits the Fan ("I think I have to get my ass back to Sunset Boulevard")
#1 tune along these lines (the one that makes me feel funny the whole time) is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7sHvMYkIk
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
As we've just had the kinks poll, might as well mention the moment in Shangri-La after the horns do a rall and tando, all grandiose magificience, and Ray comes back: "put on your slippers and sit by the fire..."
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
kinks - shangri-la (OTM!) sam cooke - a change is gonna comemanics - 4st 7lb (espec last 30 seconds)fall - lay of the land (when the song proper finally kicks in)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Cecil Taylor's version of "This Nearly Was Mine."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
The Dutchman by Steve GoodmanBoulder to Birmingham by Emmylou HarrisTake Pills by Panda BearA Change is Gonna Come by Sam CookeDirty Blvd by Lou ReedDon't Worry Baby by the Beach BoysHot Burrito #1 by the Flying Burrito BrothersWalk the Way the Wind Blows by Hot Rize
― banjoboy, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link